Scots Collection (#21)

Soldiers on board SS Lake Michigan, WW1
Men of the 2nd Scots Guards and the 2nd Gordon Highlanders on board the SS Lake Michigan during the First World War. 6 October 1914

March past at medal presentation ceremony, WW1
March past of Scottish troops on the Western Front during the First World War, for the presentation of medals by General Sir Ivor Maxse. Date: circa 1917

Scots Guards on board SS Lake Michigan, WW1
Men and officers of the 2nd Scots Guards on board the SS Lake Michigan during the First World War. Date: 6 October 1914

Scottish Rifles on the march, Laventie, France, WW1
Men of the Scottish Rifles, D Company, on the march at Laventie, northern France, during the First World War. Date: August 1915

Scottish troops on the march, WW1
Scottish troops on the march during the First World War. Date: 1918

Scots Guards in trench on Western Front, WW1
Scots Guards of the 1st Battalion, B Company, in the " Big Willie" trench on the Western Front (probably in northern France) during the First World War. Date: October 1915

A Scots Grey circa 1890s

Two Officers of the Highland Infantry
Two officers of the Highland Infantry with their swords. On the left is a member of the 76th Regiment of Foot, in the act of fronting; on the right is a member of the 42nd Regiment of Foot

Coronation. Guard of Honour in position
The Guard of Honour outside The abbey entrance mounted by The R.A.F. Regiment to the left and The 2nd Battalion Scots Guards on their right

Coronation. Irish State Coach leaves Abbey
The Irish State Coach leaves the Abbey after dropping off The Queen Mother. In the foreground The Guard of Honour mounted by the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards to the left

Coronation. Guard of Honour in place
The Guard of Honour formed by the 2nd Battalion The Scots Guards in position outside the west door of the Abbey. 1953

Scottish Highlander writing home
A Scottish Highlander writing home to his beloved. The postcard carries the byline: " Oh! Hang the Censor." Date: 1917

Washing linen in a Highland stream
Scottish women washing bed linen in a Highland stream Date: circa 1920

Scots Knight 14th Cent
A Scots knight - probably a chief of the Isles - depicted on the isle of Iona : he carries a spear as well as a long broadsword, and wears a tartan surcoat. Date: 1306

Scots Lake Monster
The reverends Twopeny and Macrae, and their two daughters, saw this creature in Loch Hourn, Scotland, for two days in succession Date: 20-21 August 1872

Highland soldier by World War One
Impression of a World War One soldier from one of the Scottish Highland regiments, marching along wearing a kilt and smoking a cigarette

Scots Pines at Aldenham House, Hertfordshire
Two tall Scots Pines (Pinus Sylvestris of the Pinaceae family) at Aldenham House, near Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. Part of the gardens can also be seen, with grass, shrubs, flowerbeds, a statue

Mary Queen of Scots - Memorial
The carved figure of Mary Queen of Scots in Westminster Abbey

English and Scottish Soldiers on Crete
English and Scottish Soldiers (more specifically the Seaforth Highlanders and Highland Light Infantry) on Crete. Although much of modern Greece had been independent since the 1820s

Lieutenant - Kings Own Scottish Borderers in Full Dress. Wearing medals: DSO and Queens South Africa medal (1899-02) (with five bars). Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

42nd Highlanders (The Black Watch)
Colour Sergeant of 42nd Highlanders (The Black Watch) (The Royal Highland Regiment) - wearing full battle order. He is wearing the double-breasted (short-lived) doublet

Lady from Lerwick using a Singer Sewing Machine
A Lady from Lerwick, Shetland Islands, using a Singer Sewing Machine

Young child and pet dog
A young child taking the pet dog out for a walk on the rocks by the sea. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Coronation Chair, Westminster Abbey, London
The Coronation Chair, also known as King Edwards Chair, in Westminster Abbey, London, shortly before the coronation of King George V

Duke of Connaught and Scots Guards
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850-1942), on a station platform watching members of the Scots Guards depart for Egypt

Lewis gunners 1918
British Lewis gunners of the 12th Royal Scots wearing box respirators in action in a front line trench during a gas attack on the Western Front in France during World War I in June 1918

World War I 1914-1915
2nd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers, 7th Division, in the trenches at La Boutillerie on the Western Front in France during World War I in Winter 1914-1915

British troops in France
2nd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers, 7th Division, in the trenches at La Boutillerie on the Western Front in France during World War I in Winter 1914-1915

Guards take aim in Sidney Street, East London
Members of the First Battalion Scots Guards lying in the roadway, taking aim during the Sidney Street Siege (popularly known as the Battle of Stepney) in East London

Scottish medium Helen Duncan during a sance
Photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan during a sance with her head covered with " ectoplasm" reaching down to her lap, May 1931. HPG/1/4/2 (xv)"

Robert the Bruce - statue at Stirling Castle
Statue of Robert the Bruce outside Stirling Castle, overlooking Stirlingshire and the Wallace Monument. Robert I (1274 - 1329)

Sir Thomas Lipton
Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, 1st Baronet (1848-1931), a Scotsman of Ulster-Scots parentage. He was a self-made man, merchant and yachtsman

Society wedding at St Margarets Church
A society wedding between Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Vivian Campbell Douglas and Elizabeth Cicely de Bunsen. The bridegroom is from Mains, Laraich, Aberfoyle, Stirlingshire, Scotland

British 36th Division in Burma - 1944
Two members of the British 36th Division (consisting of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and the East Lancashire Regiment)

Military intervention on Lewis, 1887
A page from the Illustrated London News, reporting on the measures to crush the rebellion on the isle of Lewis, titled " Sketches among the revolted crofters in the Lewis

Modern Athenians plate 12 - Edinburgh
Mr John Wilson (d. 1854) Poet, angler, walker and Professor of Moral Philosophy, approaching Mr George Joseph Bell (d. 1843) Professor of Scots Law

Sergeant - 1st Foot - Royal Scots Regiment - Light Infantry Battalion. The horn badge on his headdress indicates light infantry

2nd Scots Guards, 1914
2nd Scots Guards leave the Tower of London during World War I on 15th September 1914

Cairo, Egypt - a Royal visit
Cairo, Egypt - a visit from Princess Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood - here she meets the families of serving members of the Royals Scots Guards regiment, stationed in Egypt at this time

Emigrants to Canada 1888
Emigrants on a Canadian Pacific train: Scots on the left, Irish on the right

Rizzio Plays Lute
DAVID RIZZIO Italian musician. Favourite & foreign secretary of Mary Queen of Scots. He arranged her marriage with Darnley

Zulu war evacuation. The 21st Royal Scots Fusiliers
Scottish bagpipers in kilts and playing the pipes, lead the troops over a river as they leave Zululand. Date: 1879

The Zulu war. The transport steamer City of Paris
The transport steamer, City of Paris, striking on the Roman Rocks, False Bay, Cape of Good Hope, March 21st 1879. The steamer, transporting British reinforcements, the Royal Scots Fusiliers

Scottish Fishwives
A jolly group of Scottish fishwives and some of their menfolk. One of the women plays the bagpipes

Lassie Tramples Washing
It is the firm belief of postcard makers that the Scots are too canny to waste money on a washing machine - instead they trample the washing, the way the French do grapes

Mary Q of Scots / Darnley
MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS with her husband, Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley (1545-67)

JAMES I of England and VI of Scotland : his claim to the English throne is via his mother, Mary queen of Scots

Burns / Bannockburn March
ROBERT BRUCEs MARCH TO BANNOCKBURN Scots wha hae wi Wallace bled.Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe!

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